| A | B |
|---|
| suffrage | The right to vote |
| franchise | the right to vote |
| electorate | all the people that are enititled to vote in a given election |
| transient | person living in a state for only a short amount of time with out legal residence |
| registration | a procedure of voter identification intended to prevent fraudulent voting |
| purge | The process of reviewing lists of registered voters and removing the names of those no longer eligible to vote a purification |
| poll books | list of all registered voters in each precinct |
| literacy | a persons abillity to read or write |
| poll tax | a special tax demanded by states as a condition of voting |
| gerrymandering | The drawing of electoral district lines to the advantage of a party or a group |
| injunction | a court order that forces or limits the performance of some act by a private individual or by a public offical |
| preclearance | mandated by the voting rights act of 1965 the prior approval by the justice department of changes to or new election laws by certain states |
| off year election | congressional election that occurs between presidential election years |
| political efficacy | ones own influence or effectiveness on politics |
| political socialization | the process by which people gain their political attitudes and opinions |
| gender gap | measureable differences between the partisan choices of men and women today |
| party identification | loyalty of people to a poltical party |
| straight ticket voting | the practice of voting for candidates of only one party in an election |
| split ticket voting | voting for candidates of diffrent parties for diffrent offices at the same election |
| independent | a term used to describe people who have no party affiliation |
